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Subject: Re: Can't Get Book To Work With Toga II 1.1

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 16:45:38 12/03/05

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On December 03, 2005 at 17:36:22, F. Huber wrote:

>On December 03, 2005 at 17:28:34, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2005 at 16:58:42, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On December 03, 2005 at 16:54:53, George Speight wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I am trying to use the book from Fruit 2.2 with Toga II 1.1  I copy the book
>>>>from the Fruit 2.2 folder into the Toga 1.1 folder. Then i go to chessbase and
>>>>load Toga 1.1 as the engine to play. In parameters i change the book setting to
>>>>book.bin , just as it is in Fruit 2.2  But i cannot get Toga to play any
>>>>openings with it. It is like it wont accept the book for some reason. I use
>>>>empty.ctg as the opening book, which should force Toga to use the book in its
>>>>paramters, but it wont. I switch back to Fruit 2.2 and use the same process with
>>>>empty .ctg and fruit plays openings perfectly. Where am i going wrong. They both
>>>>have the same book listed to use in parameters, Fruit will play openings and
>>>>Toga wont. Where in hell am i going wrong. Worn out with this, George
>>>
>>>
>>>      Hi George
>>>      I think you are not doing something wrong. As far as I
>>>      can remember it's simply impossible to use the Fruit
>>>      book for Toga ... no idea why this is so.
>>>      Best regards
>>>      Kurt
>>
>>Hello Kurt,
>>
>>since I´m not using UCI engines in the Fritz-GUI I can´t say anything about it,
>>but at least under Arena TogaII 1.1 actually _is_ using the Fruit book!
>>(although at first it needs a closing and restarting of the engine, but that´s
>>a known problem of Arena when installing a new engine).
>>
>>But GambitFruit Beta4 isn´t using any of the Fruit books at all - I´ve tried
>>all possible tricks without success, so this must be a bug ...
>>
>>Regards,
>>Franz.
>
>Sorry, but I have to correct myself:
>I´ve just tried the same _restarting_ process for GambitFruit under Arena,
>and since this moment also GambitFruit is using the book correctly!
>So everthing seems ok with the engine - that´s really one of those annoying
>Arena ´features´ ... :-(
>
>Franz.

Thanks Franz. I forgot about that.



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